Love Art London

Two birds, one stone. Idris Khan and Annie Morris are both famous artists in their own right but add the fact that they’re married to the equation and they morph into some kind of superstar couple, a la Chris & Gwyneth, Jay-Z & Beyonce and The Krankies. Or perhaps they just spotted an ingenious way to save on studio rent.

Idris Khan is an artist who wholeheartedly embraces technology, in fact he can’t live without it. “A lot of people in the art world hate to use the word ‘Photoshop’, I say bollocks to that - for me, it's my tool, my paintbrush and it lets me create my own visual language.” Well if you’re a traditionalist, stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Khan’s famous for his grand scale digital collages, some of which have incorporated every page of the Qur'an, every Beethoven sonata, every William Turner postcard from Tate Britain or every Bernd and Hillda Becher spherical gasholder. Music aficionados will know Khan’s work from The Editors album An End Has A Start.

Annie Morris got her big break in 2003 when she illustrated her good pal Sophie Dahl's best-selling novella, The Man with the Dancing Eyes. In contrast to Khan, Morris is above all else a mark maker who uses the simplest of tools to make striking works with watercolour, plaster, glass and clothes pegs. Last year Christopher Bailey, creative director of Burberry, commissioned Morris to make a full length dress from 30,000 meticulously painted clothes pegs, a work which was featured on magazine covers left right and centre. However her greatest claim to fame is that Princess Diana was her primary school teacher. We meet them both Kahn and Morris for a fascinating chin wag. Fan-dabi-dozi.

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